“throughout the whole history of Christianity there has been a tension between the past and the present, between the given and the sought, between revelation as a deposit in some sense and revelation as the goal of an endeavor, between the faith to be conserved and the truth to be acquired. The tension has not been resolved by the centuries of Christian thought, but a solution cannot be attempted without taking them into account.”
― A History of Christian Thought Volume I: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon
― A History of Christian Thought Volume I: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon
“The sky suggests the vastness of creation and the smallness of man's ambition. It startles us out of our dreams of vanity, it silences our pride, it stills the lust to get and spend. It is more dangerous for a human soul to fall into than for a human body to fall out of.”
― Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
― Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
“Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“It is a special annoyance of mine that men try to separate philosophy and religion. This is false separation, because both ultimately seek the meaning of life.”
― No Little People
― No Little People
“Often men have acted as though one has to choose between reformation and revival. Some call for reformation, others for revival, and they tend to look at each other with suspicion. But reformation and revival do not stand in contrast to one another; in fact, both words are related to the concept of restoration.”
― No Little People
― No Little People
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